Speakers

Sean McNulty
Founder & Practitioner
Insight Innovate

Emanuele Ragnoli
CTO and cofounder
QPQ Limited

Sandrine Guillermin
Global IP Counsel
Transitions Optical
Leo Clancy
CEO
Enterprise Ireland

Matthew White
CCO
Frontier IP

Peter MacLachlan
Director, Trade Mark Attorney, EU Trade Mark Attorney
MacLachlan & Donaldson

Justin Lawler
CTO
Qualflow Systems


Cian Farrell
Head of Legal
Huawei Ireland

Anita Shaw
Chartered UK Patent Attorney & European Patent Attorney
IBM EMEA

Professor Andrew Atkins
Global Technical Lead & Senior Technologist
Ricardo Innovations

Brendan Guildea
Barrister at Law
The Bar of Ireland

Brian McElligot
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Altada Technology Solutions

Adeline Fleming
Senior Managing Counsel
Mastercard

Coreena Brinck
Partner, London and South, European and UK Patent Attorney (Regulated by IPReg)
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Saoirse Kennelly
Licensing Manager
Perry Ellis International

David Goodfellow
Vice President, Chief IP Counsel
Aptiv
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Partner
Appleyard Lees

Eoin McManus
General Counsel
Klas

Craig Thomson
Partner and Patent
Attorney
HGF Limited

Torsten Lindholm
Head of Customer Success
IP Screener

Shane Smyth
Partner, European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney
FRKelly

Thomas McGuire
Director Patents Program
Fidelity Investments

Barry Connolly
Senior Legal Counsel
Three Mobile

Ian McDevitt
Head of Business Development
Dolmein

CHAIRMAN
Joe Doyle
IP Manager
Enterprise Ireland
Joe is Intellectual Property Manager with Enterprise Ireland (EI). He manages the EI IP Strategy support programme which aims to help Start-ups and SMEs integrate IP strategy with their business and innovation strategies. He also represents EI on national and international IP policy issues, EU IP support programmes and the IP Management Expert Group of the ISO ‘Innovation Management Standard’ Technical Committee (TC279). He is a regular contributor to national and international initiatives aimed promoting greater IP strategy awareness, focussing particularly innovative SMEs. He holds a BSc in Materials Science, postgraduate diplomas in Strategy and Innovation and Organisational Behaviour and an MSc in Business Practice. Previously, he worked as a research scientist for 15 years at the University of Limerick where, as well as his research activity, he successfully executed a number of patent filings, licence/assignment agreements and was cofounder of an IP rich University spin-out company.
